Running for Your Life: Read, Read, Read

It pays to read. Especially these days.

Try one of my favorite reporter-writers: Matt Taibbi, now in Rolling Stone:


that America gets the karma it deserves.

Brutal but essential.

Read, read, read.

Then Jill Lepore in The New Yorker, Oct. 9:


the lead Talk of the Town cuts to the chase on what it means to be an unreconstituted liberal.

“[Free speech] is a long and strenuous argument, as maddening as the past and as painful as the truth.”

Read, read, read.

In the same New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson boogies like no one else on the “border wall” with Mexico.

“[NAFTA’s] created 53 million very poor people for whom the only solution is to emigrate to the United States and send remittances home.”

Read, read, read.


The White House treats Puerto Rico’s US citizens in an offhand way? It’s no accident the American president (emperor?) lives in a capital “W” white house.

How “white” has the nation been since its founding?

Consider the story after story after story in the epic tales of the Indian Wars with the over-sentimental title, “The Earth Is Weeping,” by Peter Cozzens (see recent blog post here). Many treaties were signed only to be broken, with the dog whistle command of government (during these years of unrivaled growth in land and economic wealth for white citizens) being:

“The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”

Read, read, read.

Next: Running for Your Life: “Gateway” Drug




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